Odong volunteered to fight COVID-19 in China

Christopher Odong volunteered to work with Chinese doctors as a translator for foreigners who could not easily communicate with Chinese doctors.

COVID19           CHINA           UGANDA 

At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wuhan, China, several Ugandans, including students, requested the Government to repatriate them back home.

However, one Ugandan student pursuing medical studies at Southern Medical University in Guangdong chose to join the frontline in the fight against COVID-19.

Christopher Odong volunteered to work with Chinese doctors as a translator for foreigners who could not easily communicate with Chinese doctors.

The 28-year-old will graduate next month with a bachelor's of medicine and bachelor of surgery at the Southern Medical University in Guangdong China.

Odong plans to continue volunteering until the end of June, ahead of his graduation in July.

Odong comes from a family of seven. His parents are James Labongo Oweka, who passed on in 2012 and Adwar Albina of Agago district, where his mother still stays.